"This account is only two months old and has only three followers. Considering that EAG has been an incessant target of trolls on and off this site, I'm going to need to see some evidence that this is a real person before I believe this."

I would like to agree with you, but I've learned that showing any skepticism towards accusers is unacceptable, even offensive. Accusation = final truth. No room for exaggeration, mistakes, misperception. Not even room for that old, now retrograde, sociological claim that two people could perceive the same thing differently. Those complexities are all needless once you've learned to accept the one true faith.

"showing any skepticism towards accusers is unacceptable, even offensive. Accusation = final truth. No room for exaggeration, mistakes, misperception."

Some people argue that accusations need to be automatically accepted (like the crazy Debra Guckenheimer Medium article) but that view has no mainstream acceptance. Phil Cohen has said on twitter that whisper networks are fallible and have low accountability. https://twitter.com/familyunequal/status/1026139528992571397

If anything I see a lot of inertia; it seems to take multiple accusations for institutions and prominent people to respond (or for the accused to say stupid sh*t like Kimmel did). There's rumblings about Martin Weinberg at Indiana; on Saturday an IU grad student on Twitter said he sexually propositioned her; will anything come of this? I am guessing not unless someone else publicly, non-anonymously accuses him (no one is going to act on anonymous second-hand reports passed off by EAG).

"He's admitted to creeping into Jazmine's room uninvited, waking her up, and refusing to leave until she gave up the @zz. You can say that's not "coercive", but few will agree with you."

whether few or many agree with me is irrelevant. what Jazmine claims RR did does not constitute coercion in any shape or form. he did not prevent her from leaving the room or the apartment, she could have called the cops or anyone else anytime, she could have asked her roommate for help at any time, but she did not.

Asking someone of a lower academic rank out now = harassment. According to SWS, sexual harassment = sexual violence. This means most academic couples involve one unwitting victim of sexual violence. Imagine not even noticing that?

^FYI, most of what she's saying is that Kimmel is a grade-A a**hole. She does confirm that she witnessed his sexual coercion towards others, but that's as far as she goes. And IMO it's best she doesn't go into that herself. It's not her story to tell.

Some of her claims--that he talked about students' appearances and sexualized them, and that he treated female grad students different from male grad students--should be pretty easy to verify and if so would be obvious grounds to rescind any award for feminist scholarship.

The differential treatment issue bothers me if it is confirmed by a serious investigation (which it hasn't yet) warrants a serious penalty, like a pay cut. I could entertain an argument that should include termination.

A lot of her other issues seem like petty academic disagreements and in my view detract from her credibility.

I’d be interested to see the actual studies about #’s of sexual partners she debated with Kimmel about. Her main objection seemed to be that the study Kimmel favored fit closely with popular stereotypes, which is not really how you’re supposed to evaluate evidence, and certainly doesn’t seem to make Kimmel a homophobe.

Something to remember next time you take the less politically popular side in a debate over research findings. You might wind up being called out as a racist/sexist/homophobe in an opinion piece on Medium.

Boy that is some pretty thin stuff. Kimmel was the big cheese at Stony Brook who liked to flaunt his celebrity connections, and so he had a gaggle of grad students he assigned a lot of menial tasks to, he talked like someone who came of age in the 1960s and stopped reading the literature in the 1980s, and he doesn't toe the line on gender terminology "Best Practices" that were invented about two hours ago. Whatever about the anonymous accuser's experience (harassment is wrong, everyone! Don't repeatedly sleaze on people, especially your students!), Bethany sets things up like we're going to get a gut-wrenching first-hand account ("horrific", "survivor", "bigoted" etc), and instead ... nothing much that anyone assigned to run errands for an egotistical old fart hasn't experienced.